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1342885

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent progress has been made towards agreeing a trade deal with Australia.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	25817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>On 14th June, the main elements of the deal were agreed by the Prime Minister and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. This Agreement in Principle was published on 16 June. This deal is the first the Government has negotiated from scratch since leaving the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The negotiating teams will now start to finalise the text of the agreement ahead of signature. Parliament will have the opportunity to scrutinise the agreement further when the text is published at signature along with an impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 07/07/2021 08:33:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1344596

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what financial support the Government has provided to churches during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the impact the pandemic has had on the finances of our places of worship and religious groups.</p><p>As part of the response to the impact of Covid-19, the Government made available a package of support specifically for charities and businesses. Places of worship that are registered charities have been able to apply to a number of these schemes on the basis of being impacted organisations themselves, and for their work delivering community services in response to the pandemic. This included the Government's £750 million package of support specifically for charities, social enterprises and the voluntary sector.</p><p>The Government continues to engage regularly with a range of faith leaders and community groups - including through our Places of Worship Taskforce and regular roundtable meetings with major faith groups - to better understand how the Government can support them to respond to the pressures they face at this time.</p><p>I encourage places of worship and community groups to monitor the Government's web pages that offer information on the schemes currently available, and new schemes when they are launched, such as: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Ffinancial-support-for-voluntary-community-and-social-enterprise-vcse-organisations-to-respond-to-coronavirus-covid-19&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C616bbfe58f274655b58208d947aca9ff%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637619629169191381%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=2Q3j64p4T4FDUAaI%2FhjRx6%2F3LC43AN553c%2FbSyvb%2Fno%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/financial-support-for-voluntary-community-and-social-enterprise-vcse-organisations-to-respond-to-coronavirus-covid-19</a></p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 16/07/2021 10:27:26 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1344597

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that accessible housing for older and disabled people remains a priority during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Our reforms on housing for older and disabled people progress despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government has consulted on options to raise accessible housing standards, including options to review and potentially tighten the regulatory framework to deliver accessible new homes. <br> <br> Since 2010 the Government has invested over £4 billion into the Disabled Facilities Grant, including £573 million paid to local authorities in May for 2021-22, funding adaptations to almost 450,000 homes. In our Social Housing White Paper we said that we will look at how we can improve access to suitable homes for disabled people. <br> <br> Our planning rules already mean councils must consider the needs of older and disabled people when planning new homes, and we are significantly reforming the planning system to put a much greater emphasis on design and quality, creating a system which gives local people more of a voice to make clear what new development their areas need and where.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 16/07/2021 10:25:51 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1342884

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) over 60, (b) between 50 and 60 and (c) under 50 have been infected by covid-19 in each of the last two months.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	25816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in people aged over 60 years old, between 50 and 60 years old and under 50 years old in England in May and June 2021.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p>May 2021</p></td><td><p>June 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 60 years old</p></td><td><p>3,551</p></td><td><p>9,385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 60 years old</p></td><td><p>4,835</p></td><td><p>15,837</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 50 years old</p></td><td><p>46,942</p></td><td><p>201,566</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/07/2021 12:58:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1344062

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to control the transmission of the South African variant of covid-19 in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	28188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The Beta variant accounts for a relatively small amount of COVID-19 cases and is on the list of current variants of concern (VOC) monitored by Public Health England and forms part of the wider approach to dealing with VOCs. This includes the continuous tracking and identification of new strains and assessing their impact on the United Kingdom population.</p><p> </p><p>In response to VOCs, including the Beta variant, support measures have been made available to local authorities, including surge testing, enhanced contact tracing, faster standard tracing for all cases in the area as well as direct reporting into a national incident management structure to ensure a consistent and timely response.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 14/07/2021 09:47:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1344063

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have acne in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	28189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 July 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-01/25819" target="_blank">25819</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/07/2021 10:31:19 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1383323

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to work with NICE to ensure that NICE committees (a) are accountable and (b) adequately consider patient testimony.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	84360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for the methods and processes it uses in developing its guidance. Patients are represented on NICE’s committees and patient groups and are able to register as stakeholders in the development of guidance and comment on its recommendations.</p><p>NICE is currently reviewing its methods and processes for developing recommendations on new technologies, including its processes for patient involvement.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/12/2021 13:55:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1383325

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken or commissioned research on the potential correlation between infant deaths and race and poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	84362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research’s Policy Research Unit is undertaking a research study titled ‘Why are people from Black and minority ethnic groups more likely to die around the time of birth compared to white babies, whose mothers were born in the UK?’</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 03/02/2022 15:07:03 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1471003

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people diagnosed with orthorexia in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	19615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>No specific estimate has been made, as data on the number of people with orthorexia is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 22/06/2022 16:07:21 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1471004

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate funding for care homes.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	19616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care needs of the local population and develop and build local market capacity. The Local Government Finance Settlement provides an additional £3.7 billion compared to 2021/22, including £1 billion specifically for social care. Councils also have access to funding from un-ringfenced grants and council tax.</p><p>We are also committing £1.36 billion for the Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund. This will support local authorities to prepare markets for reform and move towards paying providers a fair cost of care.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 23/06/2022 09:53:26 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon